perf tools: Remove support for command aliases

This came from 'git', but isn't documented anywhere in
tools/perf/Documentation/, looks like baggage we can do without, ditch
it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e7uwkn60t4hmlnwj99ba4t2s@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools/perf/builtin-help.c

@@ -301,12 +301,6 @@ void list_common_cmds_help(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static int is_perf_command(const char *s)
-{
-	return is_in_cmdlist(&main_cmds, s) ||
-		is_in_cmdlist(&other_cmds, s);
-}
-
 static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *perf_cmd)
 {
 	char *s;
@@ -446,7 +440,6 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv)
 		"perf help [--all] [--man|--web|--info] [command]",
 		NULL
 	};
-	const char *alias;
 	int rc;
 
 	load_command_list("perf-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
@@ -472,12 +465,6 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	alias = alias_lookup(argv[0]);
-	if (alias && !is_perf_command(argv[0])) {
-		printf("`perf %s' is aliased to `%s'\n", argv[0], alias);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	switch (help_format) {
 	case HELP_FORMAT_MAN:
 		rc = show_man_page(argv[0]);

tools/perf/perf.c

@@ -267,71 +267,6 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged)
 	return handled;
 }
 
-static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
-{
-	int envchanged = 0, ret = 0, saved_errno = errno;
-	int count, option_count;
-	const char **new_argv;
-	const char *alias_command;
-	char *alias_string;
-
-	alias_command = (*argv)[0];
-	alias_string = alias_lookup(alias_command);
-	if (alias_string) {
-		if (alias_string[0] == '!') {
-			if (*argcp > 1) {
-				struct strbuf buf;
-
-				if (strbuf_init(&buf, PATH_MAX) < 0 ||
-				    strbuf_addstr(&buf, alias_string) < 0 ||
-				    sq_quote_argv(&buf, (*argv) + 1,
-						  PATH_MAX) < 0)
-					die("Failed to allocate memory.");
-				free(alias_string);
-				alias_string = buf.buf;
-			}
-			ret = system(alias_string + 1);
-			if (ret >= 0 && WIFEXITED(ret) &&
-			    WEXITSTATUS(ret) != 127)
-				exit(WEXITSTATUS(ret));
-			die("Failed to run '%s' when expanding alias '%s'",
-			    alias_string + 1, alias_command);
-		}
-		count = split_cmdline(alias_string, &new_argv);
-		if (count < 0)
-			die("Bad alias.%s string", alias_command);
-		option_count = handle_options(&new_argv, &count, &envchanged);
-		if (envchanged)
-			die("alias '%s' changes environment variables\n"
-				 "You can use '!perf' in the alias to do this.",
-				 alias_command);
-		memmove(new_argv - option_count, new_argv,
-				count * sizeof(char *));
-		new_argv -= option_count;
-
-		if (count < 1)
-			die("empty alias for %s", alias_command);
-
-		if (!strcmp(alias_command, new_argv[0]))
-			die("recursive alias: %s", alias_command);
-
-		new_argv = realloc(new_argv, sizeof(char *) *
-				    (count + *argcp + 1));
-		/* insert after command name */
-		memcpy(new_argv + count, *argv + 1, sizeof(char *) * *argcp);
-		new_argv[count + *argcp] = NULL;
-
-		*argv = new_argv;
-		*argcp += count - 1;
-
-		ret = 1;
-	}
-
-	errno = saved_errno;
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
 #define RUN_SETUP	(1<<0)
 #define USE_PAGER	(1<<1)
 
@@ -455,25 +390,12 @@ static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
 
 static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 {
-	int done_alias = 0;
-
-	while (1) {
-		/* See if it's an internal command */
-		handle_internal_command(*argcp, *argv);
-
-		/* .. then try the external ones */
-		execv_dashed_external(*argv);
+	/* See if it's an internal command */
+	handle_internal_command(*argcp, *argv);
 
-		/* It could be an alias -- this works around the insanity
-		 * of overriding "perf log" with "perf show" by having
-		 * alias.log = show
-		 */
-		if (done_alias || !handle_alias(argcp, argv))
-			break;
-		done_alias = 1;
-	}
-
-	return done_alias;
+	/* .. then try the external ones */
+	execv_dashed_external(*argv);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void pthread__block_sigwinch(void)
@@ -606,17 +528,12 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	while (1) {
 		static int done_help;
-		int was_alias = run_argv(&argc, &argv);
+
+		run_argv(&argc, &argv);
 
 		if (errno != ENOENT)
 			break;
 
-		if (was_alias) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Expansion of alias '%s' failed; "
-				"'%s' is not a perf-command\n",
-				cmd, argv[0]);
-			goto out;
-		}
 		if (!done_help) {
 			cmd = argv[0] = help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
 			done_help = 1;

tools/perf/util/Build

-libperf-y += alias.o
 libperf-y += annotate.o
 libperf-y += block-range.o
 libperf-y += build-id.o

tools/perf/util/alias.c

-#include "cache.h"
-#include "util.h"
-#include "config.h"
-
-static const char *alias_key;
-static char *alias_val;
-
-static int alias_lookup_cb(const char *k, const char *v,
-			   void *cb __maybe_unused)
-{
-	if (!prefixcmp(k, "alias.") && !strcmp(k+6, alias_key)) {
-		if (!v)
-			return config_error_nonbool(k);
-		alias_val = strdup(v);
-		return 0;
-	}
-	return 0;
-}
-
-char *alias_lookup(const char *alias)
-{
-	alias_key = alias;
-	alias_val = NULL;
-	perf_config(alias_lookup_cb, NULL);
-	return alias_val;
-}
-
-int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
-{
-	int src, dst, count = 0, size = 16;
-	char quoted = 0;
-
-	*argv = malloc(sizeof(char*) * size);
-
-	/* split alias_string */
-	(*argv)[count++] = cmdline;
-	for (src = dst = 0; cmdline[src];) {
-		char c = cmdline[src];
-		if (!quoted && isspace(c)) {
-			cmdline[dst++] = 0;
-			while (cmdline[++src]
-					&& isspace(cmdline[src]))
-				; /* skip */
-			if (count >= size) {
-				size += 16;
-				*argv = realloc(*argv, sizeof(char*) * size);
-			}
-			(*argv)[count++] = cmdline + dst;
-		} else if (!quoted && (c == '\'' || c == '"')) {
-			quoted = c;
-			src++;
-		} else if (c == quoted) {
-			quoted = 0;
-			src++;
-		} else {
-			if (c == '\\' && quoted != '\'') {
-				src++;
-				c = cmdline[src];
-				if (!c) {
-					zfree(argv);
-					return error("cmdline ends with \\");
-				}
-			}
-			cmdline[dst++] = c;
-			src++;
-		}
-	}
-
-	cmdline[dst] = 0;
-
-	if (quoted) {
-		zfree(argv);
-		return error("unclosed quote");
-	}
-
-	return count;
-}
-

tools/perf/util/cache.h

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #define PERF_TRACEFS_ENVIRONMENT "PERF_TRACEFS_DIR"
 #define PERF_PAGER_ENVIRONMENT "PERF_PAGER"
 
-char *alias_lookup(const char *alias);
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv);
 
 #define alloc_nr(x) (((x)+16)*3/2)

tools/perf/util/help-unknown-cmd.c

@@ -6,16 +6,12 @@
 #include "levenshtein.h"
 
 static int autocorrect;
-static struct cmdnames aliases;
 
 static int perf_unknown_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value,
 				   void *cb __maybe_unused)
 {
 	if (!strcmp(var, "help.autocorrect"))
 		autocorrect = perf_config_int(var,value);
-	/* Also use aliases for command lookup */
-	if (!prefixcmp(var, "alias."))
-		add_cmdname(&aliases, var + 6, strlen(var + 6));
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -59,14 +55,12 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 
 	memset(&main_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds));
 	memset(&other_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds));
-	memset(&aliases, 0, sizeof(aliases));
 
 	perf_config(perf_unknown_cmd_config, NULL);
 
 	load_command_list("perf-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
 
-	if (add_cmd_list(&main_cmds, &aliases) < 0 ||
-	    add_cmd_list(&main_cmds, &other_cmds) < 0) {
+	if (add_cmd_list(&main_cmds, &other_cmds) < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Failed to allocate command list for unknown command.\n");
 		goto end;
 	}